The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy. A Catalogue of the Collection (Signed)

Urdang, George with F. W. Nitardy.

E. R. Squibb, 1940

Inscribed by George Urdang to noted scholar Owsei Temkin on front end page. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear, rubbed. Clean, unmarked pages. 190 pages, illustrations, portraits, 18 cm. *Autographed by author.* 

George Urdang was an internationally renowned historian pharmacy. 

"Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." - Johns Hopkins Medical Institute